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1960
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226 FLIGHT, 12 February 1960 \ THE INDUSTRY Cellon's New FacilityT HE old-established firm of Cellon Ltd acquired what shouldprove a valuable addition to their Kingston-upon-Thames works when, on Tuesday of last week, the opening of their newpaint application laboratory was celebrated by a luncheon Eft: which the guest of honour was John Boyd-Carpenter, Ministerof Pensions and MP for Kingston. Introduced by the company's chairman, J. Duncan Ferguson, Mr Boyd Carpenter spoke of"two great concerns which have played a vital part in the life of the Royal Borough of Kingston" (across the road from theCellon works is the vast new administrative building of Hawker Siddeley Aviation). As a result of their close association withthe aircraft industry, said Mr Boyd Carpenter, Cellon had found a continual need for developing new processes, a way of workingessential to the nation's life as a whole: in view of Britain's lack of natural resources, it was vital that we should keep in theforefront of technological progress. For many years—in fact, since the end of the 1914-18 War—the company has also been a producer of paints other than aircraft finishes, and the new laboratory is primarily concernedwith these wider products; even so, much of the work done there should be of benefit to the aircraft industry, and to thecomponents and equipment side of it in particular. Very briefly, the aim has been to solve customers' problems by installing finish-ing equipment of the kind which the customers themselves are likely to be using. Examples include hot- and' cold-spray plantsfor wood finishing; electrostatic spraying equipment; and a range of stoving ovens, including an infra-red oven and a large gas-fired camel-back oven, both with conveyor systems. Following the recent reorganization in the company's board(when A. Wallace Barr became managing director in succession to W. J. Shilcock on the latter's retirement after 46 years withthe company) another appointment to the board was announced last week—that of Wg Cdr J. C. Cantrill. With service in bothwars—he was an RFC fighter pilot in World War I—Jack Cantrill joined Cellon in 1930 after test flying for Avro, and asthe sales manager of the company's aircraft finishes division has for many years been a well-known figure in the industry andaround the flying clubs. ...... . .., „ Way to the Top TN his speech to Handley Page apprentices at their recent annual•*• prizegiving the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education, Kenneth Thompson, MP, suggested that other com-panies should follow the Handley Page example in expanding apprentice training—increasing the number of apprenticeshipsfrom 60 in 1945 to 280 at present and making available seven different training schemes. "It is difficult to see how any firmcould do more," he said. He also referred to the fact that a third of the company's technical staff and eight senior executives wereex-apprentices. "This shows," he said, "how the way is open to the top." The company's technical director, R. S. Stafford, reviewing thepast year's work (in the absence of Sir Frederick Handley Page) said that the company was pleased by the long waiting list forapprenticeships; and E>r J. S. Tait, principal of Northampton College of Advanced Technology, announced new facilities forapprentice training. In the past few years his staff had doubled and plans were in hand to double the size of the College. New Aluminium Company A NEW company, James Booth Aluminium Ltd, was recentlyformed by the Delta Metal Co Ltd to acquire the whole of the aluminium and light-alloy interests of its existing subsidiary JamesBooth & Co Ltd. Of the new company's issued capital of £10m, Delta is contributing £5m by way of existing assets and KaiserAluminum & Chemical Corporation £5m by way of additional finance. This money will be used to expand and re-equip theBooth works at Birmingham, which among other output will pro- duce specialized lines like Duralumin with which the company'sname has been particularly associated in the past. Management is to remain in the hands of the Delta Group,with the following board members: W. E. Ogden (chairman of the Delta Metal Co Ltd), chairman; W. W. Dolton, W. J. Vaughton, 'A. F. Thomas and D. H. H. Clarke from the Delta Group and D. A. Rhoades, T. J. Ready and A. H. Branstad from KaiserAluminum. W. J. Vaughton has been appointed managing direc- tor and A. H. Branstad assistant managing director. Sir HoraceClarke, present chairman of James Booth and Co Ltd, has been invited to become honorary president. The Delta announcementof the new company's formation says that provision has been made to see that control of it "will not pass out of the UK." At the Cellon laboratory inauguration (see first news item): left to right, F. Fancutt, chairman of BSI pigments, paints and varnishes industry standards committee; Dr W. J. Bushell of Courtaulds Ltd, deputy chairman of Cellon since they joined the Courtaulds group; John Boyd-Carpenter, MP, the guest of honour; J. Duncan Ferguson, Cellon chairman; and J. T. Lid bury, joint managing director of Hawker Siddeley Ariation and managing director of Hawker Aircraft Aluminium Merger Appointments A JOINT announcement from Reynolds T.I. Aluminium Ltd**• and the British Aluminium Co Ltd states that plans for the merging of the resources of the two companies are now welladvanced, and that the following board appointments—which cover the operations of both—are effective from February 1:Gerald Lacey (commercial director, British Aluminium Co Ltd) to be executive director, forward planning; G. A. Anderson (directorand general sales manager, British Aluminium) to be director of products and development; Basil James (chief executive [sales],Reynolds) to be director of sales; J. Salter (director and general production manager, British Aluminium) to be director ofengineering; Paul R. McGehee (chief executive [production], Reynolds) to be director of production, manufactured products;and W. B. C. Perrycoste (director and general production manager, British Aluminium) to be director of production, primaryproducts. IN BRIEF Sir Walter Worboys has been elected to the board of BTR Industries Ltd and appointed a deputy chairman. F. W. Holmes has been appointed projects manager of Ultra Elec-tronics Ltd. He has under his control several project teams, each of them responsible for the sales, engineering liaison and progressing oftheir particular product. Following the recent announcement of an MoA contract for 25Pyrene crash tenders, there comes news that a Russian ship recently sailed from London carrying among her cargo a Pyrene Mk 6T airfieldcrash tender ordered by the USSR Trade Delegation in the UK. Dudley S. G. Honor, who for the past seven years has been LatinAmerican representative for the Bristol Aeroplane Co, has been appointed company representative in Latin America for Canadair Ltd. A formergroup captain in the RAF, he held diplomatic posts as military and then civil air attache in South American countries after the Second World War. AVM. W. A. Opie, CB, CBE, who retired from the RAF in June lastyear, has been appointed to the board of Irwin Technical Ltd. From 1952 to 1953 he was Director of Servicing, Research and Developmentat the Ministry of Supply, becoming Assistant Controller of Aircraft in 1953. His last RAF appointment was that of AOC No 41 Group. W. D. H. Gregson, DFH, AMIEE, former London manager ofFerranti Ltd, has now taken up a new post as assistant general manager of the company's Scottish group. This employs over 3,000 personnel inits Edinburgh and Dundee factories, which develop and manufacture weapon systems, gun sights, radar and specialized electronic equipment,machine tool control systems, inertial navigational instruments and equipment for vacuum physics. Following a recent visit to Norway by W. H. Dothie, export salesmanager of Firth Cleveland Instruments Ltd, the firm of A/S Garefc have been appointed Norwegian representatives for the Gilbarco-FirthCleveland electronic tank-contents gauge. Other news from the Firth Cleveland Group is that Simmonds Aerocessories Ltd have formed acompany in Western Germany, in association with Mecano-Bundy GmbH of Heidelberg for the manufacture and sale of Spire Speed Nutsand other fastenings. W. P. Calvert, who had been director and general manager of Rolls-Royce of Australia Ltd since 1957, retired early in January after a lifetime spent in aviation. He served his apprenticeship at the RoyalAircraft Factory and in the First World War was with the RFC and RAF, qualifying as a pilot. After the war he was employed by anumber of pioneer airlines, notably Air Transport & Travel, KLM and Daimler Airways. He was with the Fokker company for a unwbefore joining D. Napier & Son Ltd, where he was associated with the late Maj Frank Halford on the development of the Rapier andDaggwengines. Mr Calvert joined Rolls-Royce as a service engineer in 193/ and as manager of the aero service department was directly responsiblefor building up the company's world-wide service organization.
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